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There Will Be Stars

"Faith Doesn't mean checking your brain at the door every church or throwing all you think you know out some stained-glass window.  It means trusting.  I have to trust now.  It's all I have." There Will Be Stars , by Billy Coffey, is the story of Bobby Barnes, a man who lives in a small southern town and has settled into a life filled with alcohol and sadness.  He cares about no one but himself and his 8-year-old twin sons, Matthew and Mark, until he is greeted by death one day and Heaven isn't quite what he expected.  Bobby finds himself stuck in a time lop with six others from his small town.  The longer he is there, the more suspicious he becomes of this place he is stuck in.  He also begins to question himself as a person and the life he lived. I am not a super religious person.  So I was shocked when I found out that Billy Coffey is a christian author.  I don't read religious books.  But this book is so good and written so we...

The Sun is Also A Star

"If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him.  I really don't.  As strategies go, it's not my finest." The Sun is Also a Star,  by Nicolay Yoon, is the story of a girl who falls in love with a boy the day she is to be deported from America.    It's a very sweet story about fate and love and the way the universe lines things up for us.  We follow 17-year-old Natasha and Daniel as they spend the day...just one day...completely falling for each other.  This day also happens to be Natasha's last day in the US before she and her family are deported to Jamaica.   This book was a bit sappier than what I normally read, and that's perfectly fine.  I enjoyed the romance.  I met may husband way back in 1999 when I was just 17 and fell head over heels for him immediately, so I'm a bit of a sucker for teenage romance.  This story made me feel all nostalgic and gave me plenty of warm fuzzies.  Don't go into it...